Please circulate widely:

 

Invitation

 

Sustainable Construction:

From Margins to Mainstream

 

A one day seminar for green building practitioners, architects, planners,

those involved in housing and regeneration,

 the construction industry and academics.

 

          Topics include:

 

·        What are the drivers and barriers to widespread adoption of ‘best practise’ in sustainable construction?

·        How can these barriers be addressed?

·        What role can academic research and teaching play in promoting innovation?

·        What opportunities are presented by developments in planning policy and regeneration such as Community Land Trusts and mutual ownership of housing?

 

11.00am – 4.00pm, Wednesday 2^nd May

 

Centre for Alternative Technology,

Nr. Machynlleth

 

          Contributors include:

 

·        Phil Horton                 (WISE special projects officer, CAT)

·        Peter Sedgewick      (Pembrokeshire CC Planning Department)

·        Duncan Forbes         (Torfaen Community Housing)

·        Pat Conaty     (Land for People)

·        Dr Larch Maxey         (Swansea University)

·        David Rodgers          (CDS Housing)

·        Tom O’Kane (Felinuchaf)

 

Free of charge (Includes Lunch)

 

Please book your place by 24^th April

 

For information and bookings, please contact Richard Bickle on 07768 184882 or [log in to unmask]

 

Organised by Cardiff School of Management. 

Funded by Welsh Assembly Government, Knowledge Exploitation Fund.